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Hello everyone, here is another advanced level creative embroidery digitizing tutorial. Once you have mastered the basics, learning how to blend thread colors will add some spice to your designs. This video tutorial focuses on the creating color blended fills in the Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe digitizing software by Singer. This lesson will demonstrate how to create the effect in PSW Deluxe. This is an advanced level digitizing technique, and you should understand the fundamentals of color blending and thread density before you attempt this technique. Using the Degrade feature in the Embroidery Settings and some math and you can achieve some beautiful color blends. If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right corner. Blogs on Density and Color Blending: Melco - https://www.melco...

Hello everyone the next tutorial for the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software is live. This episode focuses on the Autopunch tool in the Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe digitizing software by Singer. Autopunch is an automatic digitizing tool that allows you to create embroidery designs using a wizard. After this lesson you will be able to use the Autopunch tool to create your own custom embroidery.  Although the target audience are owners of the Singer Legacy SE340 sewing and embroidery machines, Futura owners will find value in this video too. Watch the Video If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right corner and then clicking it. Autopunch or Magic Wand So, opinion time - which tool should you use? The Autopunch automatic digitizing tool ...

Hello Everybody! Happy Digitizing. We've come quite a way in learning how to use the digitizing, editing, and lettering tools in the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe embroidery software. So, now we are going to focus on putting those skills to work by creating some fun projects. This blog and future blogs will focus on some of the creative aspects of the software as you combine the tools to create specialized projects. This video tutorial will teach you how to manually create an Appliqué design. The video demonstrates creating the traditional appliqué with satin overlock stitches with a bonus lesson demonstrating using motif stitches for overlocking.     If you want to follow along with this video you can download the winking smiley face image here:  https://tr.im/WinkingWhite   If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post b...

Did you know that there are three different ways to access & view embroidery designs with the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) and PSW Intro embroidery digitizing applications? No, you didn't know. Don't feel bad, I got you - this blog post and video tutorial will demonstrate all three ways you can access, view and work on embroidery designs in PSW Intro and Deluxe software. This lesson is beneficial to anyone who owns the PSW Intro and PSW Deluxe applications: owners of the Superb EM200, Legacy SE300 and Legacy SE340 machines. We will first look at the Design Browser, which tells you quite a bit of information about the embroidery design without opening it. The Design Browser can view any machine embroidery files (e.g. XXX, DST, PES) as well as CHE and FHE files. Next we will look at the Design Library, which contains the 200 designs that came bundled with your machine. Lastly, we will look at the Embroidery Design Collection, which contains 2,900 em...

Hello everyone the fourth of four Lettering tutorials is live. The Lettering 401 - Monograms and Knockdown Stitches tutorial teaches you how to use the Monogram tool to create custom monograms. You will also learn how to create knockdown stitches also know as nap-tack or pile drop stitches to tack down high pile fabrics. And you will do all of this with Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe digitizing software by Singer. Knockdown stitches are useful when you are embroidering on high pile fabrics. They hold the pile down so your design stays on top and looking great. When sewing on terry or any fabric with loops and nap, generally a topping stabilizer is used. These can be helpful, but have a limitation: They do not hold down the nap past the actual stitch, which means outlines can be lost in the surrounding fabric.   If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this b...

Hello everyone the third of four Lettering tutorials is live. The Lettering 301 - Hyperfont tutorial teaches you how to create embroidery lettering by using the True Type Fonts on your computer. You can then use/manipulate these new embroidery fonts you create the same way you can adjust the lettering fonts that are shipped with Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe digitizing software by Singer. Make sure you watch all the way until the end for the bonus lesson on the Name Drop feature. It is a time saving feature that comes in handy when embroidering names, for instance for team jerseys.  If you would like to follow along with this video, you can download the Waltograph font from dafont here:  www.dafont.com/waltograph.font If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series , please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right c...

Hello everyone, if you have been following along, viewing and practicing with all of the tutorials in this video series for learning how to digitize with the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software, congratulations , you are now ready to put into practice all of those disparate skills and complete digitizing a design. If you landed on this page and have not seen any of the other videos in this series , I recommend that you watch the previous video tutorials or read my eBook Digitizing with the PSW Deluxe Embroidery Software before attempting to follow the steps in the below video. This is a comprehensive video that demonstrates how to use all of the manual digitizing tools, as well as the editing and lettering modes and the embroidery settings. We will be digitizing A Yellow-Smiley Face. If you want to follow along with this video you can download the Smiley Face image here:  https://tr.im/YellowSmiley   If you enjoyed this vi...

Hello everyone this video tutorial features the last of the seven manual digitizing tools for the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software. The Magicwand is a semi-automatic digitizing tool that allows you to quickly digitize certain sections with the help of the software. It is a unique tool for creating embroidery as it is built for speed. After this lesson you will know how to use the Magicwand tool to create your own custom embroidery.  If you want to follow along with this video you can download the winking smiley face image here:  https://tr.im/WinkingWhite   If you are unfamiliar with how to use the Editing mode in PSW Deluxe, please view the first lesson on editing Blocks in the Editing 201 - Blocks & Stitches video tutorial. If you enjoyed these videos and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hoverin...

Hello everyone the next tutorial for the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software is live. This tutorial is the second in a two part series on Editing. This lesson introduces the Editing Mode. You will learn how to edit Blocks and Stitches that you digitized and to Split Blocks in stock machine embroidery designs. So, if you found a great stock embroidery design but there are parts of it you don't want to stitch out,  after this lesson you know how to make those custom edits to machine embroidery designs. And if you are interested in creating overlapping appliqués, you will learn how to remove overlapping stitches so the design isn't bulky. NOTE: If you own the Singer Futura software and embroidery machines, this video is applicable to you too as the features in both software are the same. If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without l...

Hello everyone the next tutorial for the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software is live. This tutorial is the first in a two part series on Editing in the Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  digitizing software by Singer. In this lesson you will learn how manipulate objects and to edit lettering you created in PSW Deluxe. Although the target audience are owners of the Singer Legacy SE340 sewing and embroidery machines, Futura owners will find value in this video too. Watch the Video If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right corner and then clicking it. This blog is not sponsored . If you want to support my content creation consider making a small donation by purchasing me a cup of coffee: https://www.ko-fi.com/tanyaowens Join me by tweeting ...

Hello everyone the next tutorial for the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software is live. This tutorial focuses on the Geometric Shapes tools in the Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  digitizing software by Singer. With the Shapes tools you can create a custom embroidery design without using artwork as a guide. You can also use a combination of the Freeform, Column and Shapes tool in your embroidery design. The Shapes tools are highly customizable: for instance, you can create borders for your monograms, stars and stripes, etc. You are only limited by your imagination. Watch the Video  If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right corner and then clicking it. Companion Guide A comprehensive companion guide with all of the steps explained in thi...

Hello everyone the second of four Lettering tutorials is live. The Lettering 201 - Frames tutorial teaches you how to customize your lettering by adjusting the lettering frame.  There are 30 different lettering frames available within Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe digitizing software by Singer. Each frame has several different handles that you can customize according to your design specifications. Watch the Video If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right corner and then clicking it. This blog is not sponsored.  If you want to support my content creation consider making a small donation by purchasing me a cup of coffee: https://www.ko-fi.com/tanyaowens Join me by tweeting about PSW Deluxe: Tweet #PSWDeluxe Singer Legacy SE340

Hello everyone the first of four Lettering tutorials is live. The Lettering 101 tutorial focuses on creating custom embroidery letters in the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software. You are introduced to the Lettering Mode where you can create custom monograms, adjust lettering in frames, and add text to existing designs in the Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe digitizing software by Singer®. If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right corner and then clicking it. This blog is not sponsored . If you want to support my content creation consider making a small donation by purchasing me a cup of coffee: https://www.ko-fi.com/tanyaowens Join me by tweeting about PSW Deluxe: Tweet #PSWDeluxe Singer Legacy SE340

Hello everyone the next tutorial for the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software is live. This tutorial focuses on accessing and customizing embroidery settings in PSW Deluxe. After you've customized your settings you save the settings as a template for future use. Video Description The Embroidery Settings determine how the block will be stitched. These settings are recipe specific. Although there are common settings for every embroidery recipe, some recipes have settings that are unique.  If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right corner and then clicking it. Companion Guide A comprehensive companion guide with all of the steps explained in this video series is available to purchase here:  https://www.tanyaowens.com/pswdeluxe ...

Hello everyone the next tutorial for the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software is live. This tutorial focuses on the Column tool, which is used to define a column block, channel, or ditch. Text or lettering is typically created with this tool. So, if you want to digitize your brush writing or your child's block lettering, you would use this tool. Like that stick family you see on the back of vehicles? You can use the Column tool to digitize it. Watch the Video  If you want to follow along with this video you can download the winking smiley face image here:  tr.im/WinkingWhite If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right corner and then clicking it. Companion Guide A comprehensive companion guide with all of the steps explain...

Hello Everyone the next tutorial for the Singer Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe  (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software is live. This tutorial focuses on the Freeform digitizing tool, which allows you to manually create custom embroidery designs. Video Description You will learn how to use the freeform tool to create your own custom embroidery.  The Freeform tool is a manual digitizing tool allowing you the freedom to be creative when creating embroidery designs.  If you want to follow along with this video you can download the winking smiley face image here:  tr.im/WinkingSmiley If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the Tanya Owens Designs logo in the lower right corner and then clicking it. If you do not know what the Freeform tool is or how to access the Digitizing Mode in PSW Deluxe I recommend you watch the ...

Hello everyone. I have been chomping at the bit to get these video tutorials done and out to you, so that you can see, learn, and practice digitizing embroidery designs in the Professional Sew-Ware® Deluxe (PSW Deluxe) digitizing software by Singer. Video Production Whew. So first, the production effort. I am a production house of ONE. That means I have to write the scripts, record the narration, edit, mix-down, and master the narration. Then I have to record the video portion, edit the video(s), add annotations, and the narration track(s). Finish, encode, upload and publish the video. But I'm not done, because I have to write all of the supporting documents - concise and comprehensive video descriptions, companion blog posts, updates on social media - this my friend is a massive project management endeavor. There's a good thing I have my PMP (Project Management Professional Credential). Hey I'm in my element. But, all of these tasks, which are typically done by a t...